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Title: Perturbative stability along the supersymmetric directions of the landscape

Abstract

We consider the perturbative stability of non-supersymmetric configurations in N=1 supergravity models with a spectator sector not involved in supersymmetry breaking. Motivated by the supergravity description of complex structure moduli in Large Volume Compactifications of type IIB-superstrings, we concentrate on models where the interactions are consistent with the supersymmetric truncation of the spectator fields, and we describe their couplings by a random ensemble of generic supergravity theories. We characterise the mass spectrum of the spectator fields in terms of the statistical parameters of the ensemble and the geometry of the scalar manifold. Our results show that the non-generic couplings between the spectator and the supersymmetry breaking sectors can stabilise all the tachyons which typically appear in the spectator sector before including the supersymmetry breaking effects, and we find large regions of the parameter space where the supersymmetric sector remains stable with probability close to one. We discuss these results about the stability of the supersymmetric sector in two physically relevant situations: non-supersymmetric Minkowski vacua, and slow-roll inflation driven by the supersymmetry breaking sector. For the class of models we consider, we have reproduced the regimes in which the KKLT and Large Volume Scenarios stabilise all supersymmetric moduli. We have alsomore » identified a new regime in which the supersymmetric sector is stabilised at a very robust type of dS minimum without invoking a large mass hierarchy.« less

Authors:
 [1];  [2]
  1. Department of Theoretical Physics and History of Science, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, 48080 Bilbao (Spain)
  2. Instituut-Lorentz for Theoretical Physics, Universiteit Leiden, Niels Bohrweg 2, 2333 CA Leiden (Netherlands)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
22381988
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 2015; Journal Issue: 02; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 1475-7516
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; 79 ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY; COMPACTIFICATION; COSMOLOGICAL INFLATION; GEOMETRY; INTERACTIONS; MASS; MASS SPECTRA; MINKOWSKI SPACE; PROBABILITY; RANDOMNESS; SCALARS; STABILITY; SUPERGRAVITY; SUPERSTRING MODELS; SUPERSYMMETRY; SYMMETRY BREAKING; TACHYONS

Citation Formats

Sousa, Kepa, and Ortiz, Pablo. Perturbative stability along the supersymmetric directions of the landscape. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2015/02/017.
Sousa, Kepa, & Ortiz, Pablo. Perturbative stability along the supersymmetric directions of the landscape. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2015/02/017
Sousa, Kepa, and Ortiz, Pablo. 2015. "Perturbative stability along the supersymmetric directions of the landscape". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2015/02/017.
@article{osti_22381988,
title = {Perturbative stability along the supersymmetric directions of the landscape},
author = {Sousa, Kepa and Ortiz, Pablo},
abstractNote = {We consider the perturbative stability of non-supersymmetric configurations in N=1 supergravity models with a spectator sector not involved in supersymmetry breaking. Motivated by the supergravity description of complex structure moduli in Large Volume Compactifications of type IIB-superstrings, we concentrate on models where the interactions are consistent with the supersymmetric truncation of the spectator fields, and we describe their couplings by a random ensemble of generic supergravity theories. We characterise the mass spectrum of the spectator fields in terms of the statistical parameters of the ensemble and the geometry of the scalar manifold. Our results show that the non-generic couplings between the spectator and the supersymmetry breaking sectors can stabilise all the tachyons which typically appear in the spectator sector before including the supersymmetry breaking effects, and we find large regions of the parameter space where the supersymmetric sector remains stable with probability close to one. We discuss these results about the stability of the supersymmetric sector in two physically relevant situations: non-supersymmetric Minkowski vacua, and slow-roll inflation driven by the supersymmetry breaking sector. For the class of models we consider, we have reproduced the regimes in which the KKLT and Large Volume Scenarios stabilise all supersymmetric moduli. We have also identified a new regime in which the supersymmetric sector is stabilised at a very robust type of dS minimum without invoking a large mass hierarchy.},
doi = {10.1088/1475-7516/2015/02/017},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22381988}, journal = {Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics},
issn = {1475-7516},
number = 02,
volume = 2015,
place = {United States},
year = {Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 2015},
month = {Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 2015}
}